AUGUSTA — Governor LePage signed legislation last week that aims to provide clarity in situations where canine police officers and other service dogs need emergency medical treatment. The legislation, LD 1716, seeks to shield emergency medical personnel or law enforcement dog handlers from civil liability in cases where they provide critical first aid or emergency treatment to […]
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Q & A: National Weather Service Meteorologist Mike Ekster
GRAY — For years, Mike Ekster would go west chasing tornadoes. But he had to move to Maine in order to issue seven tornado warnings in one day. Ekster, a lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Gray, was on hand last July to issue an historic seven tornado warnings – five of which were […]
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Longtime Cape Elizabeth consignment shop gets new life
CAPE ELIZABETH — Sandy Shapiro-Hurt said she loves seeing old, special items of clothing get new life. That is what she and her business partner, Brigid O’Reilly, hope to do with their new consignment shop, fox + doe, set to open March 31 at 1232 Shore Road. For more than 30 years, the space – known first as Forget […]
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Inside Standish
Active senior lunchThe Active Senior Citizens of Standish will be holding a luncheon on March 28 at the Standish Municipal Center. The luncheon will begin at 11 a.m., with lunch served at 12 p.m. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Donna Grovo at 675-3302. Broadway musicalThe Standish Recreation Department will be providing […]
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What it takes to plow the Lakes Region
RAYMOND — More than 700 miles of road. At least 75 trucks. Tons of salt and yards of sand that each total in the thousands. The occasional all-night shift that can stretch more than 24 hours through a single storm. That’s a conservative and admittedly incomplete list of what it takes for the nine municipalities covered […]
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Second bomb threat at G-NG Middle School
GRAY — For the second time in three weeks of school, students at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School were evacuated because of a bomb threat. SAD 15 superintendent Craig King said students were evacuated to the high school on Tuesday, March 20 — as they were on Wednesday, March 7. According to a press release from the Cumberland […]
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Inside Gray
Gray Honor Roll additions At their February 6, meeting, the Gray Town Council approved two nominees to the Gray Honor Roll: George Thomas Hill (1891-1978) was a historian and author, who lived in Gray his whole life. This Pennell Institute graduate served in the United States Army during World War I as a private and […]
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Windham High School, Middle School students participate in walkout event
WINDHAM — A group of approximately 200 students gathered outside of Windham High School Wednesday morning as part of the national school walkouts geared towards ending gun violence. The walkouts followed the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Florida that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The Windham event was originally supposed to happen […]
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A La Mexicana eyeing new Bridgton location
RAYMOND — As work continues on the project to get A La Mexicana back into a full-time home in Raymond, the Mexican restaurant’s owner is looking to open an additional location in Bridgton. Jose Chavez, whose Raymond restaurant was demolished after a kitchen fire last April, has for months been operating a food trailer in the parking […]
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Longtime Cape Elizabeth consignment shop gets new life
CAPE ELIZABETH — Sandy Shapiro-Hurt said she loves seeing old, special items of clothing get new life. That is what she and her business partner, Brigid O’Reilly, hope to do with their new consignment shop, fox + doe, set to open March 31 at 1232 Shore Road. For more than 30 years, the space – known first as Forget […]